Hippocampus pusillus

{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | name = Pygmy thorny seahorse | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name = IUCN>{{cite journal | author = Pollom, R. | year = 2017 | title = ''Hippocampus pusillus'' | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2017 | page = e.T47728648A47728851 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T47728648A47728851.en | doi-access = free }}</ref> | status2 = CITES_A2 | status2_system = CITES | status2_ref = <ref>{{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}</ref> | taxon = Hippocampus pusillus | authority = R. Fricke, 2004 }}

'''''Hippocampus pusillus''''', the '''pygmy thorny seahorse''', is only known from specimens that were dredged at depths between 35 and 228m off the coast of New Caledonia.<ref>Fricke, R. (2004). Review of the pipefishes and seahorses (Teleostei: Syngnathidae) of New Caledonia, with descriptions of five new species. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, 1-67.</ref>

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pusillus Category:Taxa named by Ronald Fricke Category:Fish described in 2004